Permalinks in the Ruby and Rails style guides
I’m happy to report that now you can use permalinks to the rules listed in the community Ruby and Rails style guides.
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Find out where a rake task is defined
Have you ever wondered where a particular rake task is defined? Enter rake -W (introduced in rake 0.9):
The Elements of Style in Ruby #13: length vs size vs count
One of the problems newcomers to Ruby experience is that there are often quite a few ways to do same thing. For instance - you can obtain the number of items...
A list of deprecated stuff in Ruby
As APIs evolve it’s inevitable that portions of them will be deprecated. Generally it’s fairly easy to find out what’s deprecated, but for several reasons th...
The Elements of Style in Ruby #12: proc vs Proc.new
People are often confused about the fact that there are two ways to created procs in Ruby - via Kernel#proc and Proc.new. Let’s see them in action: